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What the Fitbit Air Does Before You Pay for Premium
The Fitbit Air's free tier already logs lab-checked heart rate and sleep data. Premium buys the coach, and on the annual plan it costs as much as the band.
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Galaxy Watch7 Review: Which Phone Gets the Whole Watch?
Best Buy's best-selling smartwatch is a 2024 Samsung, and the phone it pairs with decides how much of the watch you get.
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Review6.8/10
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Apple's Series 12 adds a five-second heart rate reading and a microphone for Live Rewind, and only owners of an iPhone 16 or later will get the second.
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What a Bee Frontier Keeps Without Bee Pro
Amazon's Bee Frontier went on sale on October 15 for $74.99, and it never keeps a recording of what it hears. The audio is…
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Plaud Note Call Recording: How to Capture Both Sides
A Plaud Note Pro or Note hears the caller through the back of your phone, so earphones leave only your voice in the file and a speakerphone call needs the recorder on the table.
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Samsung Health Sleep Coaching Now Starts After Three Nights
Three nights of sleep data in the past two weeks is now enough to start Samsung Health Sleep Coaching, down from seven nights within…
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Does the Fitbit Edge Need Premium for Blood Pressure Trends?
The Fitbit Edge reaches stores on October 27 at $179.99, and Google's launch post lists blood pressure trends among its health features. Google's help…
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Smart Glasses in Court: Who Has to Hand Them Over
If you wear prescription Ray-Ban Meta glasses, take a regular pair to jury duty in New York. Since July 20, every courthouse run by…
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How to Use the Oura Ring 5 Sizing Kit
A Ring 4 size or a jewelry size does not carry over to the Oura Ring 5, and Oura allows a single size exchange per ring.
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What XREAL Aura Costs With Each Reservation
XREAL put prices on Aura, its Android XR glasses with a pocket compute puck, on October 7. The model with 12 GB of memory…
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Oura Health Radar for Members Outside the US
Oura began rolling out Health Radar, its set of blood pressure and breathing screens, to members in the European Union, the UK, Canada, Australia,…
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Amazfit Bip 6 Review: Fourteen Days, on Amazfit’s Settings
The Bip 6's two-week battery assumes a heart-rate reading every ten minutes and five minutes of screen a day, and one reviewer's always-on setup got about six.
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